6 posts and columns on success

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.

What’s In Store for Technology in 2011

in Personal Technology on December 29, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

Walt looks at the products and competitive positions of key contenders as they enter a new year.

"They Failed": VC Fred Wilson Gets BoomTown's First Annual Someone-Had-to-Say-It Award

in News on November 29, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

BoomTown has always enjoyed–although I have not always agreed with–the ruminations of Fred Wilson in his must-read blog, A VC. Today, the New York venture investor–heard of Foursquare or Twitter?–penned one that was flatly on point, simply titled”Chasing Returns” about a potential crisis in start-up funding. It’s a meme Silicon Valley might want to pay mind to.

Win7 Win: Microsoft Recovers From Vista Stumble

in News on October 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT

A year after it first shipped, Windows 7 continues to be the commercial success that Windows Vista never was. Microsoft boasted today that it’s sold (or rather sold and pre-installed) more than 240 million Windows 7 licenses to date, making it the fastest-selling OS ever.
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The Right Kind of Ambition

in News on August 30, 2010 at 10:50 am PT

In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Surprisingly to me, I received a large number of responses from readers questioning whether or not this was good advice. Here’s how one commenter phrased it: